I'm curious what kinds of cakes everyone has gotten from DTH on ebay and how they were. Its kind of a bummer that he only has the 3 samples there but ill probably give those a try unless they just arent worth trying...

I just got this little guy from there,
http://cgi.ebay.com/Bai-Cha-Tang-7th-Ge ... dZViewItemI am trying as hard as I can not to drink it as I want it for storage, and I want to try to keep it in its full cake form. Its pretty good. Check out Bill's review on Theancientteahorseroad blog, much better review than I could provide. That first cake you showed is also very interesting to me as well but I emailed Scott about it and he said that this one was better.

shogun89 wrote:I just got this little guy from there,http://cgi.ebay.com/Bai-Cha-Tang-7th-Ge ... dZViewItemI am trying as hard as I can not to drink it as I want it for storage, and I want to try to keep it in its full cake form. Its pretty good. Check out Bill's review on Theancientteahorseroad blog, much better review than I could provide. That first cake you showed is also very interesting to me as well but I emailed Scott about it and he said that this one was better.

Could this be the younger sister of the Xizhi Hao "Yi Wu Cha Hwang"? The '06 & '07 were both gorgeous and delicious. Mengyang use to press cakes for Xizhi Hao. If the '08 cake is from the same parents (trees), then $20/cake is a good deal...or should I say Xizhi Hao is a terrible deal.

AllanK wrote:I am curious what people's current opinion of Dragon Tea House? Will you buy from them after the controversy over the Dayi fake? I have yet to buy something known to be fake so I am still a customer.

I've emailed them twice and still haven't gotten a response about the fake dayi I got, so I probably won't purchase from them again

mr mopu wrote:I guess I will stick with Berryleb from now on. Albeit I haven't had a bad experience with Dragon, but until this blows over..

What about that 1999 7542 cake we bought? It seemed like a steal at $33 but it tastes like crap.

Even at the very cheapest place in Hong Kong you can't find a 1999 tea for $33 unless it's basically trash.... so your chances of finding something coming from the mainland for $33 that tastes anything like tea is basically nil.